Kill a handler

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Really, I don't remember when I used control-period successfully for the 
last time. Whenever I need to to stop an indefinitely running loop, I 
have to kill the entire IDE.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 3/29/2014 16:36, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>   To break into your loop so that an external control can, er, take control, add this line as appropriate inside your loop(s):
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> wait 0 with messages
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> This will let the handler look outside itself for a brief instant, so that a mouseUp message can be generated by that "cancel" button.
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> You do know that cmd-period will abort any running hsndler, right?
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> Craig Newman
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